I lie about being muslim to my family. It would absolutely break my parents heart if they really knew how I feel about religion. They already think I'm being brainwashed by my philosophy classes that I love so much.

If lying about my religion allows them to live easier then so be it. They would think they failed as parents otherwise, which they have not.

I've been taking it. My hair looks a lot healthier but I haven't noticed much else besides that. A lot of people say that it makes their hair grow a few inches in a month but like everyone else says I don't think thats possible.

I guess I don't see eggs as a necessity in life. If some people can no longer afford to have eggs everyday I don't see that as a huge sacrifice. If this came down to grains, fruit, beans, etc for whatever reason that would be a different story. I personally wouldn't be able to afford eating eggs all the time, but I'd put the wellbeing of suffering animals before that any day.

"many consumers would simply buy the cheaper eggs laid by hens living in cramped conditions in neighboring states or in Mexico."

We can't control what goes on in Mexico but we can control what happens to our animals here. I believe there must be a starting point somewhere. We could never just pull off a huge overhaul on the entire farming industry.

And are people really that desperate for their eggs that they would get them from other countries and risk getting salmonella and e. coli? Maybe they are, but they are risking that themselves if eggs are truly that important to them.

I guess I just don't see another solution, which is why I'm voting for it, if there is one I would like to hear it.

As for your question that you keep saying no one is answering - Why do people make mistakes? They're called mistakes. **** happens. Thats why.

With all of the orders that they do in a day, knowing that yours came with ranch is not obvious. Yeah they could read the ticket but again, **** happens. Deal with it. I honestly don't know how you get through life with an attitude like this.

Just an aside, I work at Michaels. I know every purchase comes with a receipt but with how busy it gets and with everything going on it slips my mind to give it to them sometimes. Even something that "obvious" can happen with everything that is loaded on us. Just one tough customer can make us frazzled and out of sync with what we're doing. No I am not saying you are stupid; I just don't think you understand.

Your post about how people should think about the repercussions to the planet before having children almost gave me a good howling laugh before I realized you were actually serious.

Do you not agree that this earth is overpopulated? I agree with what mspw said, I wish people would take more caution with their sex lives so five little "accidents" don't happen or seriously think about having more than one kid (unless there adopting of course).

Same here. Only answered the door around four times. But it also started raining. Lucky you, my mom always wants to buy the cheap dollar store candy but my dad never lets her. Now I fill sick from the snickers-m&ms-twix-butterfingers goodies.

Islam says to cover yourself to protect yourself from unwanted, lustful stares from men, etc. The Taliban has changed that to cover yourself from head to toe, including your eyes. And the former came from the fact that the Prophet Mohammed's wives covered themselves and it was seen as a good thing for a woman to do for herself. It's not a mandatory thing.

Every Muslim I've ever talked to says its a mandatory thing to cover everything besides your face, even though most in America don't. I was raised Muslim even though I don't consider myself one anymore. And everything I was taught in my years of going to the mosques was that you MUST live your life the way the Prophet Muhammad did (I actually just got lectured on this by my brainwashed 10 year old cousin the other day). Hell if I had ever heard things weren't mandatory in Islam I might have stayed in that religion.

That's not what I've heard but I'm sure you know more Muslims than I do. The courses I studied in university were taught by a devout Muslim from Morocco. He echoed what was in our books and it was that the hijab was not mandatory... but encouraged.

Yeah its hard because people have different interpretations. I don't think every rule in the Quran or any of the Hadiths are meant to be followed strictly, but most Imam's I've found can be very harsh and neurotic, sometimes preaching things not really clearly established by the religion which is where I think it often goes wrong. Like my 10 year old cousin I was talking about who said her Imam told her that facebook was forbidden.